So fickle...

The Boilermaster apparently can't make up his mind.

In the first week of our internship he and the LAJC staff talked up the blog so much that we might have been excused for thinking that maintaining the blog was our top priority this summer. (We're smarter than that, of course.) So, creative self-starters and conscientious boss-pleasers that we are, the lackeys in the Boiler Room began to shine -- posting witicisms while maintaining our high standards of workplace efficiency, to the delight of all. ...or so we thought.

The result? Complaints from the Boilermaster ("C-ville interns gone wild..."), and instructions to our supervisors to give us more work, to keep us away from the blog.

What could explain such fickleness?

Jealousy? Could the charismatic Boilermaster begrudge the interns the modicum of attention they are receiving for their wit and creativity?

Control issues? Could the Boilermaster be afraid his staff attorneys will spend too much of their time reading and commenting on the blog?

Or something more sinister? Have the Boiler Room lackeys come uncomfortably close to discovering some inconvenient truths? Is this knowledge a little too much power to allow the interns to wield? Are the lackeys creating a little too much of an identity for themselves? Rest assured, we will be alert for potential NLRA section 7 violations (thanks to Rip Verkerke's employment law class).